Decorative banners with Lenin’s likeness

image by Jorge Candeias, 19 Feb 2002

A video produced by the Carnegie Endowment featured
footage of a celebration in Red Square. During that celebration
I saw several Soviet flags with V.I. Lenin
(his head) on the red field. In fact, the visage of Lenin matches
the one seen on the Komsomol emblem at the
Further, a yellow banner with Lenin’s name (in Cyrillic:
"ЛЕНИН") was located beneath his
head.Chancellor Sean, 18 Feb 2002

That was very common: You could also see during the existence of
Soviet Union flags with the heads of Marx, Engels and Stalin (and
sometimes other highly placed leaders of several socialist countries),
either individually, or grouped together in one flag. This practice
came to the outside of the Iron Curtain,
too.Jorge Candeias, 19 Feb 2002